Preparing for a Healthy Birth (Fresh Heart Books for Better Birth)
by Sylvie Donna
In the 1950s - inspired by Grantly Dick-Read's 'Childbirth without Fear' - Marjorie Karmel, an American woman in Paris pregnant with her first child, sought out pioneering French obstetrician Fernand Lamaze. This bestselling account of the subsequent birth of her children and her experiences of antenatal education and hospital care on both sides of the Atlantic was to change for ever the way women give birth. 'Thank you, Dr Lamaze' is the moving and often very funny story of a woman's experience...
This book, written for the layperson, provides evidence-based material explaining the complex and evolving evidence of the benefits and limitations of breast cancer screening and the advances in breast cancer treatment. A diagnosis of breast cancer is one of the most emotionally charged statements a woman can hear from her doctor. Understanding the rapid changes in breast cancer diagnosis and treatment is challenging, especially for those without a medical background. This book will help explai...
Gesetz Zur Bekämpfung Der Geschlechtskrankheiten Vom 18. Februar 1927
by Albert Hellwig
In April 2014, Deputy Editorial Director at BuzzFeed Lara Parker opened up to the world in an article on the website: she suffers from endometriosis. And beyond that - She let the whole world know that she wasn’t having any sex, as sex was excruciatingly painful. Less than a year before, she received not only the diagnosis of endometriosis, but also a diagnosis of pelvic floor dysfunction, vulvodynia, vaginismus, and vulvar vestibulitis. Combined, these debilitating conditions have wreaked havoc...
Planning to have a baby is an exciting time for any family, but difficulties with conception can quickly turn excitement into anxiety and worry. For 14 percent of couples in the United States, creating a life is not the miraculous experience they expected, but rather one filled with stress, trips to the doctor, and invasive procedures. But infertility treatment doesn't have to be invasive and distant. In Curing Infertility with Ancient Chinese Medicine, fertility expert Dr. Yaron Seidman teaches...
The Human Brain During the Late First Trimester
by Shirley A. Bayer and Joseph Altman
The fourth volume in the Atlas of Human Central Nervous System Development series, The Human Brain During the Late First Trimester provides new information about features of the perinatal brain. It deals with brain development during the late first trimester (GW11-GW7.5). The major theme of this volume is the identification of stretches and patches (mosaics) of the NEP matrix along the hypertrophied telencephalic, diencephalic, mesencephalic, and rhombencephalic superventricles. Many putative mi...
Breast Cancer: Molecular Genetics, Pathogenesis, and Therapeutics. Contemporary Cancer Research. (Contemporary Cancer Research)
Depression after Childbirth
by The late Katharina Dalton and Wendy Holton
It is estimated that there are about 1000 new cases of postnatal depression in Britain every week. The results can be devastating not only to the mother herself, but also to her partner, family, friends. In its most extreme form it can lead to infanticide or suicide. Depression after Childbirth is THE classic text on postnatal depression, one that countless women have found invaluable in helping them understand and cope with this devastating disorder. Now in print for over 20 years, and in its...
The state of the world's children 2014 in numbers
This special edition of The State of the World's Children will highlight the critical role data and monitoring play in realising children's rights. With reliable data, analysed and disseminated effectively, monitoring makes it impossible for the denial of rights to go unnoticed. Data do not, of themselves, change the world. They make change possible - by identifying needs, supporting advocacy, gauging progress and holding duty-bearers to account. Making the possible real is up to decision-makers...
For the first time ever in a social science work, obstetricians tell their own stories of training, practice, fear, and transformation in this the first of the 3-volume series The Anthropology of Obstetrics and Obstetricians: The Practice, Maintenance, and Reproduction of a Biomedical Profession. These stories range from those of abortion providers to those of maternal-fetal medicine specialists. Several chapters tell the stories of obstetricians who have made paradigm shifts from technocrat...
Baby Making for Everybody
by Marea Goodman LM Cpm and Ray Rachlin LM Cpm
In Baby Making for Everybody, queer millennial midwives Ray Rachlin and Marea Goodman use their professional expertise to demystify the dizzying process of pursuing parenthood as queer and solo people, offering concrete, gender-affirming advice on topics like tracking fertility, choosing a sperm donor, legal considerations, IVF, IUI, adoption, navigating gender and pregnancy, and more. The result is a much-needed how-to guide for every aspect of the complicated, messy, and glorious process of bu...
Black Middle-Class Women and Pregnancy Loss
by Lisa Paisley-Cleveland
This day by day account of pregnancy will help expecting mothers discover captivating facts like when your baby is the length and weight of a hot dog roll, when the heart begins to beat, when their eyes open and they begin to look around, and 277 additional daily developmental facts beginning with "making me" and concluding with the "arrival." This book will warm a mom's heart and soul. It's the making of a miracle and a keepsake forever Jodie Lynn, syndicated family columnist for Parent to Pare...
9 enarzt, NAAKTGEBOREN ist Zoologe) die Frage nach dem Verhaltnis zur Psychophysiologie der Geburt und der modernen technologisierten Ge- burtshilfe auf. Diese beiden Beitrage verdeutlichen wohl am besten, wie unbekannt die sozio-psycho-physiologischen Zusammenhange der Ge- burt noch sind, und welch breites, interdisziplinares Forschungsge- biet sich hier eroeffnet hat. Die These beider, dass es einer Frau un- ter der Geburt erlaubt sein muss zu regredieren, um sich auf die Vor- gange in ihrem K...
Nederlandsch Tijdschrift Voor Verloskunde En Gynaecologie, Volume 10
by Nederlandsche Gynaecologisc Vereeniging